{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justice-and-security-northern-ireland-act-2007/section-8",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2007/6",
  "legislation_title": "Justice and Security (Northern Ireland) Act 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justice-and-security-northern-ireland-act-2007",
  "path": "section/8",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Supplementary",
  "text": "(1) Nothing in sections 1 to 6 affects—\n(a) the requirement under Article 49 of the Mental Health (Northern Ireland) Order 1986 (S.I. 1986/595 (N.I. 4)) that a question of fitness to be tried be determined by a jury, or\n(b) the requirement under Article 49A of that Order that any question, finding or verdict mentioned in that Article be determined, made or returned by a jury.\n(2) Schedule 1 (minor and consequential amendments relating to trials on indictment without a jury) shall have effect.\n(3) The provisions of sections 1 to 7 and this section (and Schedule 1) apply in relation to offences committed before, as well as after, the coming into force of those provisions, but subject to any provision made by virtue of—\n(a) section 4 of the Terrorism (Northern Ireland) Act 2006 (c. 4) (transitional provision in connection with expiry etc of Part 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000 (c. 11)), or\n(b) section 53(7) of this Act.\n(4) An order under section 4 of the Terrorism (Northern Ireland) Act 2006 may make provision disregarding any of the amendments made by Schedule 1 to this Act for any purpose specified in the order.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 1-8 expire on 1.8.2009 by virtue of s. 9(1) of this Act; S.I. 2007/2045, art. 2(3)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Ss. 1-8 continued until 1.8.2011 by The Justice and Security (Northern Ireland) Act 2007 (Extension of duration of non-jury trial provisions) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/2090), art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Ss. 1-8 continued until 1.8.2013 by The Justice and Security (Northern Ireland) Act 2007 (Extension of duration of non-jury trial provisions) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/1720), art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Ss. 1-8 continued until 1.8.2015 by The Justice and Security (Northern Ireland) Act 2007 (Extension of duration of non-jury trial provisions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/1619), art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Ss. 1-8 continued until 1.8.2017 by The Justice and Security (Northern Ireland) Act 2007 (Extension of duration of non-jury trial provisions) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/1572), art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "Ss. 1-8 continued until 1.8.2019 by The Justice and Security (Northern Ireland) Act 2007 (Extension of duration of non-jury trial provisions) Order 2017 (S.I. 2017/798), art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C6",
      "text": "Ss. 1-8 continued until 1.8.2021 by The Justice and Security (Northern Ireland) Act 2007 (Extension of duration of non-jury trial provisions) Order 2019 (S.I. 2019/1097), art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C7",
      "text": "Ss. 1-8 continued until 1.8.2023 by The Justice and Security (Northern Ireland) Act 2007 (Extension of Duration of Non-jury Trial Provisions) Order 2021 (S.I. 2021/876), art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C8",
      "text": "Ss. 1-8 continued until 1.8.2025 by The Justice and Security (Northern Ireland) Act 2007 (Extension of Duration of Non-jury Trial Provisions) Order 2023 (S.I. 2023/668), arts. 1(1), 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 8 wholly in force at 1.8.2007; s. 8 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 53(4); s. 8(4) in force at 19.7.2007 and s. 8(1)-(3) in force at 1.8.2007 by S.I. 2007/2045, art. 2(1)(3)(h)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2007/6/section/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:12:55.493954+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}